As a case coordinator at Democracy Docket, Rachel tracks and reports on a wide range of voting rights and election-related litigation. Originally from Connecticut, Rachel graduated from Washington University in St. Louis, where she participated in her university’s voter registration organization and served as a poll worker. In her free time, Rachel enjoys long-distance running and exploring local landmarks and museums.
On Sept. 11, 2023 — nearly two years after the enactment of Texas S.B. 1 — a six-week trial will begin in the consolidated legal challenge to the infamous voter suppression law.
At the end of its term, the U.S. Supreme Court vacated a decision that struck down Ohio’s congressional map. Now, litigation that could determine the fate of Ohio’s 2024 congressional map is back in the Ohio Supreme Court.
On Aug. 8, 2023, a federal district court will hold a trial in a local redistricting lawsuit out of Galveston County, Texas involving claims brought under Section 2 of the Voting Rights Act.
At the end of June, pro-voting groups resurrected the 150-year-old Virginia Readmission Act as the basis for a novel legal challenge to the Virginia Constitution’s lifetime ban on voting for individuals with any felony conviction.
On Friday, June 30, the U.S. Supreme Court declined to weigh in a lawsuit challenging Mississippi’s 1890 felony disenfranchisement provision.
The U.S. Supreme Court’s landmark decision in Allen v. Milligan will have a reverberating impact on active litigation involving Section 2 claims across 10 different states.
On May 11, 2023, the Washington Supreme Court will hear a direct constitutional challenge to the Washington Voting Rights Act. How did a previously resolved case morph into a direct challenge to the Act?
Facing countless voter suppression laws, illegal maps and new conservative legal tactics, is the U.S. Department of Justice taking sufficient action to protect voting rights? We gather the DOJ’s lawsuits, amicus briefs and more.
On March 14, the North Carolina Supreme Court will rehear Harper v. Hall, a previously decided redistricting case out of North Carolina, which could impact the pending U.S. Supreme Court case Moore v. Harper.
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